What can architects and urbanists learn from philosophy? And what do philosophers have to gain from design? This seminar explores groundbreaking moments of exchange between architects, urbanists, and philosophers in the last hundred years. Every week, students will discover new ideas, approaches, and modes of thinking that have, creatively and critically, brought these disciplines together.

This seminar investigates architecture at nature’s far edge, where human construction encounters environments and climates considered to be extreme: the very cold, the very hot, the very high, the very deep; the very arid, the very swampy, the very toxic, the very glaciated, the very eruptive; the remote and the abyssal, the alpine and the subterranean, the oxygen-thin and the radiation-soaked.